Future in doubt: Uncertainty and smaller budgets plague the Corps
The next few years will be rife with uncertainty for manpower planners and Marines in uniform. Current drawdown plans, which take across-the-board budget cuts into account, call for the service to...
View Article'Complete transformation' awaits Marine aviation in 2015
ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP AMERICA, South Pacific - Several generations of Marine aviation idled just yards apart aboard the Navy's newest warship during its recent cruise around South America...
View ArticleWhite House security changes weighed
President Obama is 'obviously concerned' about a weekend White House breach by an ex-soldier with a small knife who scaled a fence, sprinted across the lawn and entered the mansion before being...
View ArticleTuition discount offered to lure adults back to college
When you're 30, the first day of school can feel a lot like every other day.
View ArticleMitscher deploys for 5th Fleet
The destroyer Mitscher departed Monday morning on what's slated to be an eight-month deployment to 5th Fleet. There, the crew will provide security operations and ballistic missile defense along with...
View ArticleUSS Mitscher to deploy to Middle East
The USS Mitscher is preparing to leave Virginia on a deployment to the Middle East.
View ArticleCruiser Vella Gulf returns from action-packed cruise
The cruiser Vella Gulf returned to Norfolk, Va. Saturday with plenty of sea stories to share from their six-month deployment.
View ArticlePolice: Bliss solider beat 2-year-old daughter to death
A Fort Bliss soldier was charged with capital murder after he fatally beat his 2-year-old daughter with a belt because she soiled her diaper, according to West Texas police.
View ArticleRetired sgt. maj. found not guilty of gun charges in Canada
Retired Sgt. Maj. Louis DiNatale, charged with unauthorized possession of a weapon at the Canadian border last year, has been found not guilty by a Canadian court, his lawyer said Monday.
View ArticleIslamic State militants kill 40 Iraqi troops
A wave of suicide bombings by Islamic State militants in western Iraq has killed 40 soldiers amid waning efforts by security forces to retake territory from the Sunni extremist group, a senior Iraqi...
View ArticleSyria vote isn't last word from Congress on war
President Barack Obama's Mideast war strategy isn't in the clear yet as far as Congress is concerned.
View ArticleReports: 3 missing Afghan soldiers detained at Canadian border
Three senior Afghan military officers who failed to return to a U.S. training base in Cape Cod have been taken into custody while trying to cross into Canada, according to news reports.
View ArticleFort Leonard Wood drill sergeant pleads guilty to sex assaults
A Missouri drill sergeant charged with sexually assaulting eight female soldiers pleaded guilty Monday to three charges at the outset of his court-martial.
View ArticleFor single moms in uniform, 'Fort Bliss' movie shows costs and rewards
Army Master Sgt. Kerensa Crum wasn't expecting much when she walked into an early screening of 'Fort Bliss,' a new movie about the struggles of a single mom in the military.
View ArticleNew Army vice chief expects worse manpower conditions
The Army's new vice chief expects in 2016 that sequestration will once again rear its ugly head, and that means thousands more force-cuts in the service.
View ArticleSyrian opposition chief urges airstrikes in Syria
The head of Syria's main Western-backed opposition group on Thursday called for immediate U.S. airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Syria, saying urgent action was required 'to avert...
View ArticleVerdicts in August courts-martial
The Navy has published the results of special and general courts-martial tried in August - 23 verdicts in all. The cases, by the region in which they were tried:
View ArticleHarris tapped to lead PACOM
Adm. Harry Harris is the president's pick for the next head of U.S. Pacific Command, according to a Monday release from the Defense Department.
View ArticleCruise pay approved
Over the past half-dozen years, sailors and Marines have borne the brunt of longer and longer deployments. Now, for the first time, they'll start getting paid for it after 220 deployed days.
View ArticleProsecutor: White House fence jumper is 'a danger to the president'
White House fence jumper Omar Gonzalez, arrested Saturday with a folding knife in his pocket, had a car packed with more than 800 rounds of ammunition parked a few blocks away, a prosecutor said Monday...
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